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AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin City Council member will attend an ethics hearing tonight over some controversial comments he made regarding same-sex marriage.

District 6 Council member Don Zimmerman had an ethics complaint filed against by him Mark Walters regarding some of his Facebook comments. The complaint claims Zimmerman compared gays to pedophiles in a debate over same-sex marriage.

Zimmerman says the complaint is “completely bogus.”

The second complaint filed by Walters accuses Zimmerman of not filing reports on campaign money.

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